A red jockey’s cap, a riding crop, a horseshoe, a spur, and bits of posters and papers are tacked and pasted against a wooden forest-green door, which fills this vertical painting. At the midline about a third of the way down the composition, the crimson-red cap hangs from a loop on a nail so we look onto the button on the soft top and the rounded brim, below. It overlaps a long, tapered, stick-like riding crop, which angles from the upper right corner to the lower left of the composition. The crop has a shallow knob at its top, and it hangs from a leather strap around another nail driven…
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For the Track

painter John Frederick Peto (American, 1854 - 1907)

1895

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 110.49 × 75.88 cm (43 1/2 × 29 7/8 in.) ; framed: 136.53 × 101.6 × 5.4 cm (53 3/4 × 40 × 2 1/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., in honor of Earl A. Powell III
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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